This kinda app would need at least an attempt at a technical solution to the bot problem. An open source app can’t just pay people to kick bots out. And even the paid apps that can are drowning in bots.
Something cryptographic maybe. Tor is kinda magical, makes anonymity possible while the each machine knows who they are talking to. Maybe something where you can show that you are “a verified user” without showing exactly which one.
I have a few (internal) web pages like that at work, they do the job but yes they are ugly
Have you ever seen HTML without CSS? It’s ugly as hell
I think the better comparison (whether that’s technically accurate or not) is to HTML + CSS + JS. Which is overly complicated for just small blogs and personal webpages etc. I think that’s the “issue” Gemini is trying to solve.
I grew up using macos, still use it on my work laptop, and use elementary os on my home machine. For the most part, it’s great. I like
Unfortuntalely, there are a few big issues with it, mostly due to the small number of developers
If those aren’t dealbreakers, I can recommend eos. But do check out the other options as well.
It is really easy to mirror git repos though, which makes this less of an issue than most other monopolies
Gamers are a bit more tech savvy than average people tho
The other option is that anybody who recommends Lemmy, actually just recommends an instance. Make an account on examplelemmyserver.org and download the app XYZ should be the go-to recommendation. Not ”there are so many cool options”.
Git repo that I sync with my raspberry pi. You never know if some of the dotfiles contain sensitive info so I like to keep them on machines that only I can access
Nikotin ist natürlich nicht harmlos, aber Rauchen ist extrem ungesund (10 jahre kürzere lebenserwartung). So einen Effekt hat Nikotin nicht.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=48 The monthly stats don’t look too bad to me. The yearly stats are meaningless.
I’m not sure if the centralization is worse than the large portion of users on the large servers who joining copies of established communities on their own instances. Also, from my other reply:
It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.
Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “memes@domainname.ending” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.
It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.
Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “memes@domainname.ending” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.
IMO, a more opionate search would fix this. Just recommend the most active community and show the others in gray.
There’s a million easier ways to claim the German unemployment money than that
A Git history would be quite an easy way to show that you are doing something regularly.
I just keep checking if it’s done every 1-2 minutes by tasting it
I only work once, then copy that work everywhere.
Good that works for you. If only my needs were so simple that the configs could be same on each machine.
I know that’s an insufferable way to put it but holy shit have you been like that too.
I mean I just took the users word for summarizing the thing accurately, but doesn’t seem too complicated to me https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/112036
Either way, it’s not about this specific idea. It’s just that you need some technical way to combat bots, be it cryptography, web of trust, subjective moderation etc. If it’s open source, there will not be enough volunteers to do moderation